absurd person singular alan ayckbourn ambulance communicating doors confusions drama desk award evening standard first-person narrative improbable fiction josephine tewson julia mckenzie lynne meadow manhattan theatre club narrator new york oliver sacks private fears in public places sect stephen joseph theatre stockard channing subjectivity thailand the guardian the man who mistook his wife for a hat the norman conquests the stage thunderstorm vaudeville theatre virgin islands way upstream west end theatre